Eight Types of Waste in Healthcare
From the book Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Engagement…
The types of waste:
- Defects
- Overproduction
- Transportation
- Waiting
- Inventory
- Motion
- Overprocessing
- Human potential
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